RT Journal Article T1 BEACON: A Cloud Network Federation Framework A1 Moreno-Vozmediano, Rafael A1 Huedo Cuesta, Eduardo A1 Llorente, Ignacio M. A1 Montero, Rubén S. A1 Massonet, Philippe A1 Villari, Massimo A1 Merlino, Giovanni A1 Celesti, Antonio A1 Levin, Anna A1 Schour, Liran A1 Vázquez, Constantino A1 Melis, Jaime A1 Spahr, Stefan A1 Whigham, Darren AB This paper presents the BEACON Framework, which will enable the provision and management of cross-site virtual networks for federated cloud infrastructures in order to support the automated deployment of applications and services across different clouds and datacenters. The proposed framework will support different federation architectures, going from tightly coupled (datacenter federation) to loosely coupled (cloud federation and multi-cloud orchestration) architectures, and will enable the creation of Layer 2 and Layer 3 overlay networks to interconnect remote resources located at different cloud sites. A high level description of the main components of the BEACON framework is also introduced. SN 1865-0929 YR 2016 FD 2016-04-27 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23338 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23338 LA eng NO European Union Horizon 2020 NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) DS Docta Complutense RD 2 may 2024